We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall — but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.
Darling, whose book is this to be?””Ostensibly yours, my sweet””I see — rather like my life since I met you?””Yes darling
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
We’ve got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We’d be lost indeed if we didn’t do that.
I’m a reliable witness, you’re a reliable witness, practically all God’s children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation–which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.
It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here” — that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysm.
The way I came to miss the end of the world – well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years – was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.
What we do with the product of genius is first of all ram it down to the lowest common denominator and then multiply it by the vulgarest possible fraction. -from “Pawley’s Peepholes
“Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.”“Exactly,” she agreed.
…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.